"Antiphon" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... invective which Antiphon wrote against Alcibiades, that once, when he was a boy, he ran away to the house of Democrates, one of those who made a favorite of him, and that Ariphron had determined to cause proclamation to be made for him, had not Pericles diverted ...
— Plutarch's Lives • A.H. Clough
... resolution was Pisander, who was throughout the chief ostensible agent in putting down the democracy. But he who concerted the whole affair, and prepared the way for the catastrophe, and who had given the greatest thought to the matter, was Antiphon, one of the best men of his day in Athens; who, with a head to contrive measures and a tongue to recommend them, did not willingly come forward in the assembly or upon any public scene, being ill looked upon by the multitude owing ...
— The History of the Peloponnesian War • Thucydides
... people, calling them to repentance. A Litany was sung through the streets of the city by seven companies of the clergy and people, starting from different churches and meeting at the Basilica of St. Maria Maggiore. From this litany, perhaps, was taken the processional antiphon, "Deprecamur Te Domine," which was sung by Augustine and his companions on entering Canterbury at the outset of their English mission. At length the confirmation of his election arrived from the Emperor, and though Gregory still tried ...
— St. Gregory and the Gregorian Music • E. G. P. Wyatt
... the great hymns to the Virgin in the Catholic service. "The antiphon said after Lauds and Compline from Trinity Sunday to Advent." Addis and ...
— The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 • Various
... it will not be amiss to relate, for the honour of Socrates, what passed between him and the sophist Antiphon, who designed to seduce away his hearers, and to that end came to him when they were with him, and, in their presence, addressed himself to him in these words:—"I imagined, Socrates, that philosophers were happier than other men; but, in my opinion, your wisdom ...
— The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates • Xenophon
... found it impossible to fix his attention on the service. The lights at the altar burnt dimly in his eyes—the loud antiphon and the supplicatory prayer fell upon a listless ear. His whole life was passing in review before him. He saw himself as he was when he first professed his faith, and felt the zeal and holy aspirations that filled him then. ...
— The Lancashire Witches - A Romance of Pendle Forest • William Harrison Ainsworth
... with us, Antiphon, Simonides, Agatho, and many other Greeks who of old their brows with ...
— Dante's Purgatory • Dante
... Halicarnassus, from which we may perhaps conclude that Longinus is referring here to Thucydides, the traditional master of Demosthenes. De Thucyd. Sec. 53, Rhetoron de Demosthenes monos Thoukudidou zelotos egeneto kata polla, kai prosetheke tois politikois logois, par' ekeinou labon, has oute Antiphon, oute Lusias, oute Isokrates, hoi proteusantes ton tote rhetoron, eschon aretas, ta tache lego, kai tas sustrophas, kai tous tonous, kai to struphnon, kai ten exegeirousan ta pathe deinoteta. So close a parallel can hardly ...
— On the Sublime • Longinus
... an impressive antiphon, starting with the knights, ascends higher and higher, and, calling in gradually the voices of invisible singers in the middle height, becomes metamorphosed into an angelic canticle as it takes its flight to the summit. It is the voice ...
— A Book of Operas - Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music • Henry Edward Krehbiel |
